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MODERN CRUSOES.
Castaways Living Four Months on
an Uninhabited Island.

Castaways Living Four Months on
an Uninhabited Island.
On March Doth last, the iron bark Derry
Castle, belonging to Limerick, Ireland, left
Geelong for Falmouth with wheat No trace
Of her could be found at any port, and she
was posted at Lloyds as missing. On Sep
telnber % eighJ survivors Of the Derry
Castles crew reached Melbourne on the
sealer AwarSa. They stated that the missing
bark had been cast away on Enderby Island,
one Of the Auckland group, eight days
after commencing the homeward voyage.
Tho Captain, both mates, and twelve
seamen were drowned in trying. to
reach the reef. Seven Of the crew and the
only passenger, James McGhie, endured for
five months a series of privations and ad,
ventures which seldom occur, in real
life. The scene of the wreck is rare
ly visited by vessels. The survivors
had no food except shell fish, which
were very scarce, and they had but little COW
ering The island was explored, and the
party was much cheered by finding on the
other side OF the harbor a small hut, which,
it appears was formerly used as q depot
for stores for shipwrecked seamen.
The place was opened with the e1-
pectation OF finding food, but it was
tained was pint bottle of salt. The New
Zealand Government had maintained four
depots for relief of castaways, but
lately dispensed with all but one on the
mainland at Port Ross. TO Port
Ross, which was in sight. the
Survivors strained their eyes in hopeless
yealning to reach it, but they had no means
OF making boat. Fire was finally obtained
by dscharging a cartridge found
in one Of the mems pockets. Life
was maintained by parching wheat
which was washed ashore from the cargo
of wrecked bark. On the ninety-second
day all old azehead was discovered in the
sand. By its means efforts were made to coll
struct boat or oblong box, Calking was done
win odds anaends Of rope, and yarn was driv-
ell into the seams with a piece of hoop
irou. The boat was eventually launched.
Two Of the party pushed of from the shore
in hope of reaching Port Ross. The effort
was successful, and soon signal fires at Port
Ross told that help was at hand. On July ~
the shipwrecked men were transferred to the
mainland and their sufterings were at an end
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South and West.

Two convicts werekilled and three wounded,
one mortally. while trying to escape from
prison at Yuma, Arizona. Superintendent
Gates was badly wounded.
A TRAIN which arrived in Chicago from
New York q few days since contained q
closed carriage that had been shipped from
the latter city. In the carriage was found
the body of young man who had evidently
been murdered
J. E. SMITH, the express messenger who
recently killed two train robbers near El
Paso, Texas, was paid $4,000 by order Of
Governor Ross as a reward for his act.
Smith will probably get $4,000 more from
the express company and 81 900 from the
railroad company, making total OF 5000.
w. H. REYNOLDS, an Ohio editor, was
shot and killed in Orange Township by James
Mason, brother Of D. G. Mason, who was
plaintiff in a libel suit against Reynolds. The
murderer was arrested.
CHARLESTON, S. c., has been celebrating
its recovery from the earthquake disaster
of little over year ago. Since that time
the city has been practically rebuilt.
ANTONIO INFANTES, On aeronaut, fell 500
feet by the collapse of balloon at st. Louis,
and was Instantly killed.
THE Third National Bank, of st. Paul,
Mimi, has suspended.
MAG SHERMAN, a colored woman, was
shot dead in court, at Airmount, Miss, by
Sell Boyle, a young white man, against
whom she had made charge Of assault.
ATLagro, Ind, the Rev. Andrew Luce, q
Presbyterian minister, swooned away and
died while the Rev. Mr.. Kanouse was Offer
ing prayer.
The guests at a merry-making in George
G. Kings house, near Lamar, La, were all
taken violently sick after supper. Six white
persons-fivc men and one woman-and one
colored man died, and many others, at last
accounts, were dangerously i'll.
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SHOT BY SUGAR STRIKERS.
Four White Men Shot Down BY Col
ored LabOrcrs in louisiana

The labor troubles in the Louisiana sugar
district has eliminated in a serious riot on the
Lacassaignc plantation in Terrebonne parish.
The negro laborers on the plantation
struck and refused to so to work un-
less their demands for higher wages
were granted The white laborers, about
twenty-five in number, continued at work
The manager of the plantation telegrapaed
to New Orleans for m n to take the place OF
the strikers, and fo!ty.five white men were
employed and sent to the plantation.
The Lacassaigne place is about eight miles
from the Morgan railroad and sixty miles
from New Orleans. The roadside is borl-red
with under:IruSh. As the new lajore:s
were or their way to tn. plantation
they were attacked by the strikers
ambushed along the road, and four
Of the new mon were shot down and wound
ed. The others scattered, leaving the
strikers in possession of the field. Appeals
were made to the Governor for troops to
protect those who may desire to work, and
Company c, Louisiana artillery, was ordered
to the scene.
More than ten thousand negro laborers
were on strike The white men working on
the sugar plantations, holding that the de-
mands were unjust refused to Join them.
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KILLED his FAMILY.
The Awful Crime of a Weaver
i'm Connecticut.
Shooting His Wife and Burning
His Two Children to Death.

John Hodel, silk weaver of Turnerville,
Conn, shot and killed his wife, and, setting
fire to his house, smothered his two children,
Wednesday morning. The people Of the
village observed smoke escaping from the
roof of the house and went in to put out
the blaze. They discovered that Mrs:
Hodel had been tied to bed and shot
and that the husband, who was probably the
out to hunt for Hodel the people suddenly
remembered that the two children had not
been seen. On going to their room. the little
ones were discovered i'll bed. One OF the
boys lived a short time, the other had been
Smo hered.
The excitement in the village as soon as
these facts became known was intense, and
the indignation of the citizens found vent in
threats to lynch the inhunlan wretch. The
man was finally found by the town Constable
and placed under arrest. He cannot
talk English, but through all interpreter
said that he and his wife made an
agreement by which he was to kill her and
the boys and then kill himself. He said that
he had tied his wife in the bedroom and
then shot her, and had afterwards set fire
to the house to burn up the boys. He
would have killed himself, but he broke the
gun. Hodel and his wife quarreled over COW
a few weeks ago, and the neighbors say
they have heard them quarreling frequently
since Hodel had been drunk for several
days. He was committed to the Tolland
County Jail to await the action of the Grand
Jury.
Hodel is thirty-five years of age. His wife
was about the same age, and the two boys,
Jacob and Adolph, were three and six, re-
spectively. He has not heen in this country
very long. and says that he had just sent $50
to his father in Switzerland to repay
money borrowed for passage to this coun-
try. At the preliminary hearing the inter
prefer testified that Hodel acknowledged that
he had killed his wife and admitted that he
had burned the house. Hodel, however,
pleaded not guilty to tue charge Of murder.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

A RESIDENT of Brooklyn, N. Y, has a
collection of 10000 butterflies.
THE seventh international Congress Of Hy-
giene will bc held in London in 1871.
The enrolled school population OF the South
has increased 800 per cent, since 1870.
DR. WIN. A. HAMMOND says that there are
500 doctors in New York city moro than are
needed.
ONE Florida county expects to pay this
year from $1,000 to $3.50 for wildcat and
bear scalps
TIE petroleum refiners Of the United States
consume about 8, ,0OO, 900 pounds of sulphuric
acid per month.
THERE are Isl Medical Colleges in the
United States, with an aggregate attendance
of Il, 600 students.
THE total United States crop of peanuts
this season will equal 2,S25,O 600 bushels,
against 400, 900 bushels in 1878.
MONTANA paid during the present year in
bounties for the killing Of squirrels, wolves,
prairie dogs, bears and coyotes. S96.6&lo
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Duchess Of Sutherland is an enthusias.
tic collector Of birds eggs.
EVANGELIST MOODY Is about to begin re-
vival meetings in Louisville, KY.
EX-SENATOR JONES, of Florida, is still in
Detroit, and is suffering from brain trouble.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON has steer that
weighs 2, 100 pounds, and measures over eight
feet around the body.
THE richest clergyman in the Unitarian
church is said to be the Rev. DR.. G. A Bar
tol, of Boston, Massachusetts,.
The Rev. c. II. Spurgeon is said to have
lectures, to be delivered in this country.
SEVEN United States Senators visited Eu-
rope the past summer: Palmer, Stockbridge,
Hale, Frye, Spooner, Aldrich and Hawley.
Two sons of Charles Dickens, Alfred Ten
nyson and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens,
are settled as real estate agents and brokers
in Australia.
l. SECRETARY BAYARD il reported to be en-
about forty years old, and an employe OF the
State Department, at Washington.
The names Of Abraham Lincoln and Gro
yer Cleveland are on documents relating to
the transfers Of certain piece Of land in
ten in 1856 and Clevelands in 1879,
JOHN R. STETsoN, Philadelphia hatma-
ker, employs SO0 men, women and children,
and has Sunday-school of ], 600 scholars in
conection with his factory. The chapel where
the school meets cost $4,000.
AMID a brilliant display of diamonds at
the Rothschild wedding, in Paris, lately, the
Grand Rabbi of India outdazzled every one
else present with about half pint of first
water gems that he had stuck about his
turban.
REV. CHARLES A. BERRY, young English
minister, preached in Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, recently, and made a very favor
able impression. 1t is believed he will be
chosen as the successor Of Henry Ward
Beecher.
REAR-ADM1RAL WoRDEN, Commander of
the Monitor in the fight with the Merrimac,
isliving i'll Washington. He is seventy years
of age, but looks younger. The wound he
received at the Monitor and Merrimac battle
not only impaired his sight, but has left him
always sub ject to severe headaches. He was
retired from the navy in 1856 on full pay, and
is Il Us in rstsaiot Of $4,000 year.
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Foreign.

GENERAL NUR-MAHoMED, companion of
the Afghan pretender. Ayoub Khan, in his
fight from Teheran, has been captured and
publicly hanged at Hcrat.
THE appeal of Editor William O'Brien, the
Irish Home Rule leader, against the sentence
of three months imprisonment imposed on
him by the Mitchelstown court, has been re-
fused and the sentence of the lower court
confirmed. Mr.. O'Brien was convicted Of
using seditious language, under the Crimes
act, at a National League meeting at
Mitchellstown. There was fierce struggle
in court between the psople and the police
guarding Mr.. OBrien
DE LEssEPs, protector of the Panama
Canal, says the great ditch will be formally
opened on February 3, 1890.
A VIOLENT storm has done an immense
amount Of damage to shipping along the
coasts of Great Britain and France.
THE town Of Kluzin, in Minsk, Russia, has
been totally destroyed by fire. Three hundred
and fifty houses were burned and many lives
were lost.
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BLOWN T To PIECES.
Explosion Of a Giant Powder
Magazine in New Jersey.
Four Men Killed and the Building
Completely Demolished.

Nearly 1000 pounds Of torcite, an explo-
sive something like dynamite, stored away in
the cartridge room Of the American Forcite
Powder Company at McCainsville, near Lake
Hopatcong, N. j., went Off q few. days
since, killing four persons and blowing
the whole building to bits. The men who
were killed were workmen engaged in
packing away cartridges. They are Henry
Todd, John Fancher, Frederick McDede and
Philip Myers, all married. The cause
of the explosion Is unknown, as none
Of those who were in the building
are alive. The superintendent had left
the building only q moment before the
explosion. The works Of the company were
close to the lake and near the station Of that
name, and were erected only a few months ago
after the explosion Of July Z, 1885, when ten
men were killed and property worth thousands
Of dollars was destroyed When the company
rebuilt its factory it scattered the buildings
over more territory, 80 that if one blew up
the rest would not necessarily go up with 1t.
Every object in the vicinity of the cart
ridge building is utterly demolished, and 9
great hole in the ground ten feet deep Is all
there Is to show that the building ever
existed. The ground was literally strewn
with fine bronzed splinters, and moth =
ing was left Of the four men
who were in the building but little pieces Of
hundreds Of yards around The explosion
shook the whole surrounding country, and
people ran out Of their houses miles away In
the belief that there had been an earthquake.
The American Forcite Company's works
at Hopatcong are extensive, consisting OF
over fifty buildings, scat cred over 40 acres
of ground. The works employ, when run to
Iot,s G,,l osNx
tns dncs fG daily fspa@S @ about peunds naS q er
For the last month, however, they
have only been running at about
onethird OF their capacity, the daily product
being about six thousand pounds Of powder.
At the time of the explosion there were
only about Fifty men employed. Only
a small amount Of forcite Is kept
stored at the works, the greater
wSeh sSH the force
that is kept on hand is stored are situated
mile and half or two miles from the mills.
The engine which furnished the power for
the exploded packing house was hurled into
the air a considerable distance aud in its de-
scent it crashed through. the roof Of the
nitro-glycerine separating house, about 80
feet distant. It caused no explosion
Superintendent Nibelins was in this build
ing, and he had a narrow escape.
He was struck by piece Of flying TIM
ber, but was not seriously hurt.
Some men at work in the glycerine washing
house, about sixty feet distant were knocked
senseless by the shock and one end Of the
building was shattered. John Rogers and
Alonzo Love, who worked in another pack
ing house, were slightly hurt about the head
This part of Morris county has become one
O.: the greatest powder manufacturing centers
in the country, and within year and half
twenty men have lost their lives in explo-
sions at the different works.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is at work on a.
grand opera-''Mary Stuart"
NEWS is received that Remenyi, the noted:
violinist, has been drowned in shipwreck on
the coast Of Madagascar.
The National Opera Company this season
will visit the principal cities OF the Union,
beginning at Philadelphia.
TIE London theatre is built Of ire-proof' :
material; it has an iron curtain, and eiec'
tricity Is used instead OF gas. =.
MARY ANDERSON will return to America .
next year, and will open in New York Octo-
ber /, 1885, under Mr.. Abbey's management
NINE. PoN1s1, of New York, has just com
pleted her fiftieth year OF theatrical Life. sne~
FIRST appeared on the stage In 1887, at York.
shire, England.
Mr.. p. s. GILMoRE, who has provided
music for three years at the st. Louis E1- /,
position, has contracted to take his oachestra-
there another season I'd
ONE of the wealthy American actors fs-.
Oliver Doud Byron, who is reported TO De-
of houses in Cleveland. s
MISS ETHEL SpRAaUE, daughter of Mrs
Kate Chase Sprague, who will sooi. begin
her dramatic career, Is handsome woman .
just eighteen years Of age.
THE clown has been gradually fading out
as circus attraction, until now the proprietor
Of lone of the big shows" announces his In
tention to drop him entirely from the pro
gralnme next season.
Miss ARNoLpsEN, the Swedish star, has,
captured the hearts Of the people OF Bergen,
Norway, by series Of concerts there, and
impressed the fishermen Of the place sostrong-
ly that they sent her a whale as present.
AN orchestra of women, who are all play :
ers of brass instruments, Is making sensa' p.
tion in Dresden. The ladies have an engage.
ment for Vienna next winter, wh,re they Will :
play at series of balls among the aristoc-
racy.
NEGOTIATIONS have been almost COM
pleted by which Signor Marconi, one OF the ,
three great tenors now delighting Europe :
and reducing the South American republics
to poverty, will in all probability visit the :
United States in the early spring.
FEW people know that DR.. George T. Root,
who is living in Hyde Park, ILL.,, at the age Of
seventy years, composed many of the North
ern war songs Of twenty-five years ago.
"Trampl Trampl Trampl the boys are March .
ing" and Orally Round the Flag Boys" are :
his.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states-

THE Reading Railroad Com pany has ad
vanced the price Of coal twenty-five cents
ton.
THE fifteenth National Women's Congress
has Just been held in New York. Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe was reelected President
TEEMER beat Gaudaur half q mile in a
boat race on Lake Maranacook, Me.
REAR ADMIRAL j. W. A. NICHOLSON, of
the United States Navy, died at his home in
New York few mornings ago. He was
sixty-seven years of age, and had been for
four years on the retired list.
JAY GOULD, the noted New Y ork fnancier,
has sailed for Europe.
GEORGE j. KELLY, Boston Globe report
er, was choked to death by piece Of meat
lodging in his throat while eating his supper
in Cambridge (Mass.) restaurant.
A VEIN Of coal worth s3,00O 900 has just
been found in South Wilkesbarre, Penn, at
q distance of ! 100 feet below the surface, the
deepest shaft in Pennsylvania.
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THE NATIONS WARDS.
Annual Report of the Superinte Ell
dent of Indian Schools.

Annual Report of the Superinte Ell
dent of Indian Schools.
From the annual report of John B. Riley,
Superintendent of Indian Schools, which has
been filed with the Secretary Of the In.
terror, it appears that the aggregate ex-
penditure by the Government for the educa-
tion of Indian children during the year
was 81, ,095,379. The whole number of Indian
children between the ages OF and l6
years is SO, ,S2l, Of whom Il, ,932, or about 37l2
per cent. attended school some portion of the
year. At several agencies nearly all the
children of school age attend, while at others
less than one per cent. are at school.
The Superintendent deprecates the lack Of
system in the matter of text books used i'll
Indian schools, and says that it renders futile
any effort made by the Indian Bureau to
direct or control the school-room work He
recommends that uniform system Of text
books and study be adopted
Mr.. Riley favors the policy of teaching
only English in the Government schools. He
says that he has tried to impress upon teach
ers the Importance of giving the study of the
has found schools where the pupils, although
they had been in school for several years,
could not speak English so as to be under
stood.
The report says that too much stress cam
not be laid upon the Importance of prepar-
ing native teachers, and to this end suggests
that normal school department be estab-
lished at some of the larger schools
The Superintendent makes the following
recommendations:
That an industrial boarding school be es-
tablished near the Missouri River, adjacent to
the Sioux reservation; that schools be pro-
vided for the tribes in Nevada; that Congress
be requested to provide for the education of
100 Indian children to be selected from the
tribes living in the State Of New York; that a
Commission be appointed and empowered to
make thorough examination of the whole
subject of Indian education, with the view
to systematizing the methods and increasing
the facilities as may be deemed necessary
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While fishing from rowboat near
Orange City, Fla, Mr.. John Thursby
tied his line to the bow and laid down
for nap. When he awoke he was three
miles up stream and big catfish was
tugging away at the line for dear life.
The fish weighed over twenty pounds
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Now serving their first term at Sing Sing
prison there are ,10S convicts; serving sec
ond term, 209; third term, 70; fourth term,
10; fifth term, 10; sixth term, 3; seventh
term, 2; tenth term, 2. Ali States are repre-
sented except California, Nevada and
Oregon
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THE late King of Dude ruled with abso-
lutte sway the 1000 retainers within the
domain OF his palace. Despite the 81 goo, ,0OO
paid to him annually by the Anglo Indian
Government, he was always deeply in debt
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MY Dentist.

Ny dentist is mild eyed man,
Tender of heart and soft OF palm,
Who draws me in wheneer he can
To his loving grasp
To gouge and rasp.
He seats me in @ cushioned chair,
Twists my jaw and muses. my hair
All Of which is easy to Lear;
But OIL the roar
or the electric bore.
never complain, nor gainsay the truth
Of the luxury Of gold-filled tooth,
Or silver, or platinum, forsooth;
But sight of the bill
Brings on n chill.
-Norristo,rn Herald.
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IN Faunettsburg, Franklin Comfy, Penn.
Hives a fifteen year old hoy who Is six feet and'
one inch in height and well proportoned
BIS name is James Newton Alexander.
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Little Eranf.

Christmas is gone and New Year has
been ushered in. We now write 1887
A large number of relatives and
friends gathered. at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Pendleton last Friday,
to welcome the return of their son
Thomas and his bride. After partaking
of an abundant collection of good things
they were pleasantly entertained by
vocal and instrumental music until a
late hour, when they returned to their
homes leaving behind many good wishes
and valuable presents for the bride and
groom.
Mr. and Mrs. A, j. Frazier and Mr..
and Mrs. John Pennock, of Blooming
ton, spent the holidays with relatives
and friends in Little Grant.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Barkell gave a
dinner to a number of their friends
New Years day.
Martin Morgan arrived home last
Monday from his trip to Nebraska. He
looks hale, hearty and happy.
james Miner, who has been confined
to his bed the past two weeks with lung
fever, is now improving under the able
management of DIR. Lewis of Blooming
ton.
Mr.. VIM. Miner, of Charles City, Ia,
arrived here last Tuesday, having been
called to the bedside Of his sick brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benz. Hamer gave a
family dinner patty Christmas day.
Town Treasurer Henry Henkel is
daily receiving money from taxpayers.
Rufus Miner, who is engaged in the
hardware business at Creston, Iowa, gave
his parents pleasant surprise, by re-
turning home last Thursdayevening.
Quarterly meeting will be held at the
Miner sehool-house Jan. 8 and 9.
Last Wednesday evening Misses
Mary and Hyttie Hamer gave an invi-
tation party to few of their relatives
and friends. A very enjoyable time
was had in tipping the fantastic toe to
the strains of the violin.
WIDE-AwAKE